Tag Archives: Professor Bryan Cheyette

Holocaust books?

With Holocaust Memorial Day fast approaching (January 27), Bryan Cheyette ponders on whether there is too much focus on the Holocaust. He asks this question as the chair of the Jewish Quarterly/Wingate Prize judges with 4 out of 5 books … Continue reading

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JQ Wingate Prize

The 2017 JQ Wingate Prize has generated an innovative and diverse long list of fiction and non-fiction from authors around the world, as it marks its 40th anniversary. The 14-strong list includes six novels as well as a multi-faceted mix of … Continue reading

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A triumph of Dylanology

Professor Bryan Cheyette writes: There are Bobcats and Dylanologists. Bobcats focus mainly on the concerts, Dylanologists on the lyrics. Bobcats record anorakishly every detail of their idol’s life but Dylanologists focus on just one aspect, as they tend to be … Continue reading

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Lord Byron and the Hebrew Melodies

  Bryan Cheyette writes: A few weeks ago, during a busy term, I was asked to appear on a Michael Rosen radio programme about Byron’s Hebrew Melodies. This is a little known volume and was set to music by a … Continue reading

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Diasporas of the Mind: Jewish and Postcolonial Writing and the Nightmare of History

Bryan Cheyette’s important and original new book, Diasporas of the Mind, sheds new light on a wide range of modern and contemporary writers to explore the power and limitations of the diasporic imagination after the Second World War. In this round-table discussion, Bryan was joined … Continue reading

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A Book of the Year

Diasporas of the Mind, written by Professor Bryan Cheyette, has been chosen as a book of the year by the Times Higher. Robert Eaglestone, Professor of contemporary literature and thought, Royal Holloway, University of London wrote: Somewhere between pleasure and duty I … Continue reading

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Professor Cheyette speaks at University of London event

Diasporas of the Mind Jewish and Postcolonial Writing and the Nightmare of History Speakers: Professor Bryan Cheyette, University of Reading; Professor Robert Eaglestone, Royal Holloway, University of London; and Professor Susheila Nasta MBE, The Open University Chair: Professor David Feldman, Director of the Pears Institute. … Continue reading

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Writing Jews in Contemporary Britain

On September 11th, Dr David Brauner and Professor Bryan Cheyette both delivered well-received papers at a unique workshop entitled ‘Writing Jews in Contemporary Britain’.  Hosted by the Pears Institute at Birkbeck College, University of London, the workshop comprised three panels … Continue reading

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All welcome to Minority Identities research seminar

 FAHSS Minority Identities: Rights and Representation Research Theme   Research Seminar :  Signifying Corporeality: The Body as bearer of Neocolonial trauma, pain and suffering in Anita Desai’s Postcolonial Fictions – Bhawana Jain, Visiting Research Fellow, School of Literature and Languages … Continue reading

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Dr Pablo Mukherjee visits to talk on Kipling

            On Wednesday 14th March Dr Pablo Mukherjee, Reader in English at the University of Warwick, came to give the Modern Studies Research Seminar on ‘The Dead Who Did Not Die: Rudyard Kipling and Cholera’. … Continue reading

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